Home What Are Banners ?? Blank Banners 400 x 40 Blank Banners 468 x 60 Examples Tutorials Banner Companies FAQ Links How To Link To Us Other AAA sites AAA - Backgrounds AAA - Buttons Clip Art Warehouse Neon City		Back to the main tutorials page Creating a simple banner with Paintshop Pro For this tutorial we're going to take a blank banner, add two clip art pictures, and then some text. First of all, open the blank banner, and both the clipart pictures you're going to use. These are mine, I'm going to put the dog at the left hand end of the banner and the hand at the right. You'll notice that both the dog and the hand are on a grey background, I don't want them to show up as being on a grey square, so I need to alter these two icons. The dog first. Select the eyedropper tool from the line of icons along the top of the screen and place it over the blue colour on the banner. At the right hand side of the screen, under the two coloured squares, you'll see four letters with numbers against them, the letters are R,G,B and I. Ignore the "I" but make a note of the other three numbers, in my case these are R-0, G-0, B-255. Decide which icon you're going to alter and have a careful look at its colours. You need to find a colour that's NOT being used. In my case I'm altering the dog and there's no green in it, so I'll use green. Click on the icon you want to alter. When you've clicked on the icon you want to alter, click on the top square of the two coloured squares at the right hand side of the screen, it looks like this.... A box will now open containing lots of different colours, double click on a colour that is NOT being used in your icon. When you've done this another box will open, at the right hand side of this box you'll see three boxes called Red, Green and Blue, these boxes have numbers in them. Alter the numbers to the numbers you made a note of earlier. In my case this was 0,0,255 when you've done this click "Okay" and then "Okay" again. Next select the fill tool from the line of icons, and click in the grey area surrounding your icon. It should now have a background the same colour as the area it's going to be placed on. Do the same for any other icons, move the eyedropper over the colour it's to be placed on, make a note of the R,G,B numbers, select the icon you want to place on that colour. Find an unused colour and alter its Red, Green, Blue to the numbers you've just noted. Then with the fill tool, fill in the background. Here are my examples after doing this... Next click back on the eyedropper tool and click anywhere on your banner. Select "Colours" from the menu at the top of the screen, and then select "Increase Colour Depth" from this list. When the next list appears select "16 Million Colours". Click on the first icon you want to place on the banner, select "Edit" from the menu at the top of the screen and then "Copy". Click on your banner, select "Edit" from the top of the screen and then "Paste" and "As New Selection". Your first icon should now appear on the banner and you should be able to move it around. Move it to where you want it and then click to paste it. (If you make a mistake here select "Edit" from the top menu and then "Undo", you can then repeat the process. Repeat the process for your second icon, the banner should now look like this.... Finally we're going to add some text, in my case it's going to be "FREE CLIP ART !!". Select the text tool from the line of icons and then click on the top colour box of the two at the right hand side of the screen. Select whatever colour you want your text to be. In my case white. Next click anyway on your banner and a text box will open into which you can type your text. You must also select a font and a size (36 point is massive, 20 point is medium, 10 point is very small). Make sure that the checkbox labelled "Antialias" is checked. When you're happy click "Okay" and the text should appear on your banner, you can move this around until it's in position. (If the text is not right, select "Edit" then "Undo"). To paste the text into position click on it with your RIGHT mouse button. My banner now looks like this. If you want to get very fancy you can add a drop shadow, to do this follow adding the text as above but DON'T RIGHT CLICK to paste the text. The text should still have moving lines round the outside of it. Select "Image" then "Special Effects" then "Drop Shadow". You'll have to experiment with the settings (if it's wrong just click on "Edit" and then "Undo". For this example below I set opacity to 100, right and left offset to 2, colour to black and blur to 2. Finally we need to save our banner, first of all select "Colours" from the top menu and then "Decrease Colour Depth" and select 256 colours. There are two checkboxes labelled "Nearest Colour" and "Error Diffusion", if your banner looks wrong when you've decreased the colour select Edit / Undo and try the other setting. Finally go to the "File" menu and "Save As", set the type to "GIF" give it a name and that's it !! Back to the main tutorials page
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